Bostedt, Göran
- Institutionen för skogsekonomi, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
Sammanfattning
This paper presents a first empirical assessment of carnivore conservation under a performance payment scheme. In Sweden, reindeer herder villages are paid based on the number of lynx (lynx lynx) and wolverine (gulo gulo) offspring certified on their pastures. The villages decide on the internal payment distribution. It is generally assumed that benefit distribution rules are exogenous. We investigate them as an endogenous decision. The data reveals that villages' group size has a direct negative effect on conservation outcomes and an indirect positive effect which impacts conservation outcomes through the benefit distribution rule. This result revises the collective action hypothesis on purely negative effects of group size.
Nyckelord
Performance payments; Group payments; Wildlife conservation; Empirical policy assessment; Sweden; Lynx; Wolverine
Publicerad i
Environmental and Resource Economics
2014, volym: 59, nummer: 4, sidor: 613-631
SLU författare
Associerade SLU-program
Samisk- och renskötselrelaterad forskning
Globala målen (SDG)
SDG15 Ekosystem och biologisk mångfald
UKÄ forskningsämne
Annan biologi
Nationalekonomi
Ekologi
Publikationens identifierare
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-013-9752-x
Permanent länk till denna sida (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/63132